The one. The only. The Mentor- Poppa Prince Paul.
Peep game in this pre-”De La is Dead” interview conducted by Johnbronski during the New Music Seminar .
I’m gonna go as far as to say that this is exclusive material.
Anybody got a roll of that Dew-Doo Man toilet paper- AKA the best promo item of all time?
Bonus points go out to the 10 people that own the Resident Alien album….
Part 2 of the Del Interview I posted earlier. Peep how many times he says “you can get paiiiiiid” when talking about sampling. He also ends it with an acapella verse from Burnt, which is one of the illest posse cuts of all time IMO. Casual absolutely crushes the track. I’ve included an mp3 of it below in case you aren’t already up on game.
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Live. EARLY!
In the words of Funkmaster Flex from his legendary July 4th weekend 90’s mix last year, Large Professor when this dude was broke!
I’ve been holding onto this one for a while but it’s only right to let it out with all the footage we have coming soon. Main Source performing Atom which was not on their debut LP, Breakin’ Atoms. The footage is from a dance show up here called Electric Circus. It got wack as hell in their later years but definitely had a heavy hip-hop influence in the early 90’s.
Atom appears on an obscure Canadian Hip-Hop Compliation called Cold Front from 1991. The good people at Cocaine Blunts have already uploaded this track along with the A-side, Think so I might as well give them their propers.
If you didn’t already know, someone by the name of Kyu once said, “Cassingles are the shingles”. Word ‘em up. This here is the cassingle of “Protect Ya Neck”. I copped it in 93 while on a trip to Yonkers with my family. It features the bloody version of “Protect Ya Neck”, as well as the Home Grown version of “Method Man” which has an extra verse of Meth dropping some more seemingly nonsensical rhymes. I got love for him, but damn, what the hell is he talking about on that tune??
Peep the production credit on the back:
“Produced, Mixed & Arranged by Prince Rakeem for Wu-Tang Productions” - I love it.
- Protect Ya Neck Bloody Version
- Method Man Home Grown Version
And how brothers want it? Wit salt or butter? Motherfucker.
If you know like we know, JVC Force (Justified by Virtue of Creativity For Obvious Reasons Concerning Entertainment) were 3 cats (AJ Rok,B-Luv and Curt Cazal) from Strong Island Doin Damage
Not sure if this is up anywhere else, but I couldn’t resist.
The track cuts off and you don’t hear B-Luv’s shout-outs, but you get the full verse
Live radio mix from Primo on Hot 97.
My favourite quote from the tape comes in at around 9:20. FATMAN SCOOP:”Do you have Ultramagnetic ‘MC Ultra’(*”Ego Tripping”?)*-… Cuz Method man wanted to hear Ultramagnetic”. CLASSIC.
Enjoy.
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This is too crazy. All the way from killing “Road To The Riches” to Steady B’s “Ceereus”(BDP Remix), Kool DJ Red Alert goes for his in a major way on this one.
MAJOR shout out to Johnbronski for recording this back in May 1989. My apologies on the audio (straight from the muthafuckin cassette!) but this IS after all, an (almost) 20 year old tape.
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Hey remember Rowdy Records? Dallas Austin before the yae-yo incident?
Well if you don’t, he was somewhat of a risk-taking visionary his whole career and he gave upstart skateboarding, weed-smoking, vans-rocking, shit-talking Y’all So Stupid a deal through Arista since he had industry juice at the time. He also put out Illegal and Da King and I. Some serious classics on that roster.
Their debut(and sadly, only) album Van Full Of Pakistans was the shit. I bumped The Plant and the title track like crazy only to find out that The Plant was somehow missing from the LP that I copped in some random spot near Times Square on my first trip to NYC.
This video is of their Debut Single, 85 South. It’s hysterical. Dude skitching the car with his deck on the highway? Easy.
H20 from this group later was part of a late 90’s underground group called Mass Influence. They had a couple bangers. Evidently he is still doing his thing, so big up and thanks for penning some seriously dope tracks. Dirt Road White Girl anyone?
Here’s audio of the aforementioned title track “Van Full Of Pakistans”. If H20 pops up on here and tells us wtf that actually referred to, it would be appreciated. I’ll try and get the 2 other mixes off the 12′ up here soon with download links for all.
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Here’s some audio from Evil Dee’s “Monday Nite Flava Mix” on Hot 97. I’m guessing this is from around ‘95-96(?).
There’s some insane tracks on this(including a slightly different version of “Give Up The Goods (Just Step)”(live? 12″ version?), as well as some pretty good on-air banter between Evil Dee and Big Dennis (big up KFC “chicken” potpies).
Anyways, this tape is butter. Primo’s on the other side of the tape, too. As Kool DJ Red Alert would say:” STFM” (Stay Tuned For More)…
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Kardinal Offishall - Fresh Arts Freestyle
More early 90’s Masterplan heatery. Here we have a young Kardinal Offishall (then known as Kool Aid) freestyling with Marvel at the Masterplan Show. Kardinal absolutely KILLS IT over the “Lesson Pt.2″ instrumental. This session was also featured on “Fresh Arts:The Music Perspective” cassette-only release.
My homegirl Rea Mcnamara did a dope piece on Fresh Arts about a year ago in Eye Weekly.
